Alphas & Betas

MMOs in various stages of testing and crowdfunding, playable and… not. Don’t forget to follow our Betawatch and Make My MMO columns for a weekly rundown. [Follow this category’s RSS feed]

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Kickstarted MMO Fractured shows off its Alpha 1 map of Myr

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The first alpha test for Fractured has not yet begun, but you can get a taste of what it'll be like with a look...

DragonCon 2018: Camelot Unchained’s Mark Jacobs on VR, battle royale, and more

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"It’s about time." Those are not my words referring to the current development status of Camelot Unchained. No, those came directly from the mouth...
Leaving port.

MMOARPG Lost Ark will finally launch in South Korea on November 7

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Lost Ark is finally hitting open beta, MMO Culture reports. Smilegate's media conference this morning revealed that its soft launch open beta will land for...

The MOP Up: Star Trek Online’s starbase defense

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With the Age of Discovery pack on its way this fall, players of Star Trek Online are probably curious what the studio has up its sleeve...
Oh, I get it.

Make My MMO: Project Gorgon builds a new city, Camelot Unchained teases Star Citizen

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This week week in MMO crowdfunding, Project Gorgon has been cooking up a big patch. "Next week's update includes a new city for players with...

Shroud of the Avatar Update details collector’s box shipments, player-made books, Release 57 livestream

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This week's update from Shroud of the Avatar is all about collector's box shipments, player-made books, and the recent Release 57 livestream. The main...
It couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of of theoretical games.

Betawatch: Star Citizen wants you to mine rocks and buy another concept ship

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What do you know, there's another concept ship for sale over in Star Citizen. And it's relentlessly specialized in one specific field, making it...

Absolver’s free-to-play Downfall expansion is due out September 25

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Absolver was one of last year's bigger stories, with its slick multiplayer combat style, but as we reported last month, its high player concurrency...

Star Citizen’s latest Around the Verse talks asteroid mining, rocks, and focused listening

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This week's Star Citizen Around the Verse video opens with a cinematic segment that is both unnerving and confusing, but it's quickly tossed to...
...oh, it's not me.

Star Citizen elaborates on the Mercury, its latest concept ship’s role and abilities

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So, has the latest concept ship from Star Citizen inspired you to open your heart (and perhaps more importantly, your wallet)? If not, perhaps...
Let's do this together! Team-building!

Dauntless improves matchmaking across the board for its next patch

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Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match in Dauntless. You'll be better at doing so once the game's next patch comes around because the next...

New World’s latest screenshot teases include multiple landscapes, including the Damned Capital

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Years ago on Massively-that-was, our former editor-in-chief once was forced to institute a rule that we could have only one TERA screenshot post per...

Dauntless previews The Middleman, its new NPC cell crafter

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Some folks would be trying to cut out the middleman, but not Phoenix Labs: The studio is bringing The Middleman into Dauntless. He's basically...

Ship of Heroes’ latest video demos city street immersion on the spaceship

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Ship of Heroes is following up its roadmap and immersive NPC AI discussion with a video that puts the content progress into perspective. "Immersion is...

Pantheon newsletter previews fall pre-alpha test, delves into Skar race redesign

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Visionary Realms has released the latest newsletter for its in-development high-fantasy MMO Pantheon, in which the devs highlight some of the game's latest developments...

Star Citizen’s latest Calling All Devs dishes on recreating Earth, non-lethal weaponry, and customization

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This week on Star Citizen's Calling All Devs, Jared "Disco Lando" Huckaby sits down with some of the Star Citizen and Squadron 42 devs...
Spooky?

Survival MMO Rend patches in reputation tweaks, smarter mobs, and jump nerfs

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Patch 4.1 descends on Rend today when the servers return from maintenance, and it's a bit of a hodge-podge of tweaks and fixes. Notably: ...

Worlds Adrift’s latest update adds Alliances, tunes netcode, and fixes bugs

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Worlds Adrift has had quite the week, releasing a new update as well as the latest dev podcast. The latest update, Update 26, added...

The Black Death update adds Kings and Queens, squashes bugs

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Grim medieval survival sandbox The Black Death has released a new update that brings with it a number of bug fixes as well as...

Gamevil is launching autobattle mobile MMO Talion this week

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Here's one we almost forgot about: Talion. We covered it last spring when Gamevil first announced its closed beta, which apparently ran all summer....

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